“This is not a want; this is an absolute need for the community.”

– Tim Sullivan, president and CEO of South Milwaukee-based Bucyrus International Inc., which hosted a press conference introducing legislation to create a Milwaukee-area regional transit authority. The bill would enable a new Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail line and would authorize Milwaukee County to levy a 0.5 percent sales tax hike to fund upgrades to the municipal bus system.